Or maybe archaeology is just being used to distract attention from other research disliked even more by the Republican majority, which passed a bill adding burdens to the National Science Foundation while doing nothing to improve public understanding of the science done with federal support. According to Lamar Smith (a Republican Congress member representing the … Continue reading »
geography
Carceral geographies: Mapping the escape routes from mass incarceration
Today and tomorrow (Sept. 18-19, 2014) at UC Berkeley we will be launching a new undergraduate course thread titled “Carceral Geographies.” Our launch will begin with a keynote address by the great Ruth “Ruthie” Wilson Gimore, scholar/activist extraordinaire who has given us the definitive study of California’s descent into mass incarceration, Golden Gulags: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, … Continue reading »
Geography of inequality
One vision of the digital electronic future is that it would “erase” place and space. One can Skype over a cell phone with people half a globe away. A law firm can send audio to India and get back transcriptions in the morning. A firm in California can order goods from Korea and have them … Continue reading »
Berkeley’s role in a legal decision with “huge” implications
One of the striking things anyone who routinely lives outside the US discovers is what a narrow slice of the world we are informed about by the US media. I am sure that the explanation by cable news executives and newspaper editors is that US readers just aren’t interested in the rest of the world. … Continue reading »